bottom bolt

noun

a bolt at the bottom of a door or the like, sliding into a socket in the floor or sill and equipped with a device for keeping it raised when the door is not fastened.

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How to use bottom bolt in a sentence

Then I silently shot the bottom bolt and noisily drew back the top one.
The Uttermost Farthing | R. Austin Freeman
It is not true that the bottom bolt was never used to secure the door; it was bolted that night.
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 | Camden Pelham

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